From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:02:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20071020070249.GX14735@spearce.org> References: <20071019031959.GE14735@spearce.org> <20071019032407.GA10622@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7E3647F4-E61C-4FBE-9AA7-81CDBE324308@MIT.EDU> <20071019033500.GB10697@coredump.intra.peff.net> <93BF5798-F1C3-48EE-8233-A0F111BF8138@MIT.EDU> <20071019034704.GB11095@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1192859748.13347.146.camel@g4mdd.entnet> <20071020062400.GA30388@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20071020063628.GV14735@spearce.org> <8D972813-2D7F-4D6A-958F-B76E947E7BC3@MIT.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Witten X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 20 09:03:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ij8MW-0003xF-OS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:03:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754931AbXJTHC5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:02:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756125AbXJTHC5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:02:57 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:47987 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753769AbXJTHC5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:02:57 -0400 Received: from [74.70.48.173] (helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Ij8MH-0008QB-2I; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:02:53 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ABEB820FBAE; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:02:49 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8D972813-2D7F-4D6A-958F-B76E947E7BC3@MIT.EDU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael Witten wrote: > > On 20 Oct 2007, at 2:36:28 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > >Today I move the file, then unstage the hunks I'm not sure about, > >then go back and restage them. Annoying. It really disrupts > >my workflow. > > I know it's against policy, but the proposed change should be set > as the default at some point, in my opinion. Its not so much policy as a timing issue. Git 1.5.4 shouldn't have major distruptions to end-users in terms of changing existing behavior to be different than in 1.5.3. Especially default behavior. Git 1.6.0 we're a little bit more willing to change default behavior as it is a full major release. This is probably quite a bit off still, unless we started to accumulate a lot of really good changes that required breaking something in the user interface. That's what happened with the 1.4.4 series vs. 1.5.0. Right now I don't see that happening anytime soon. > I have a feeling that my suggestion will not go far, > but I also think that backwards compatibility can > overstay its welcome. I agree. -- Shawn.